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Tag Archives: solar power
Japan’s Choice: Go Solar or Go Dark
“Japan’s dim capital faces further power crunch” (Associated Press, April 3): About 9 million kilowatts of capacity may be gone forever as the radiation-leaking Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is likely to be scrapped and the future of the halted Dai-ni … Continue reading
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Tagged electrical power, fossil fuel power, japan, nuclear power, power, solar power
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Japan Solar Energy Graphics
Sometimes it seems that nuclear power advocates are attempting to insinuate that Japan doesn’t have enough land area to use solar energy in place of nuclear energy. Here’s what the solar panel requirements actually look like. Per person: [Calculations: Electrical … Continue reading
Would GE make more money by decommissioning reactors?
In the United States today, there are thirty-five boiling water reactors, of the same type as at Fukushima. Nuclear decommissioning costs around $325 million per plant. So if all the GE plants were to be decommissioned immediately, GE (which would … Continue reading
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Tagged decommissioning, general electric, nuclear power, photovoltaics, solar power
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Neighborhood Power Plants: An Alternative to Catastrophe and Collapse
Today was a gloomy day here in the Seattle region. The sky was overcast and it was nonstop raining. I happened to be driving through downtown around noontime when I saw a sign which gave the solar flux: .23 kw. … Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, japan, meltdown, nuclear power, portable power generators, solar power
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Engineer’s Dreams
Engineer’s Dreams: Great projects that could come true, by Willy Ley (1954). Here is a book that I found at Half Price Books that has been out of print for decades. Not only is it over fifty years old, it … Continue reading
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Tagged chunnel, civil engineering, Engineer's dreams, megaprojects, Peloponnese, solar power, tidal power, wind power
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